5.26.2011

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Yglesias: “Friends Without Benefits”:

Protecting Israel is a special project taken on by the United States. The reasons may be good and bad, but it’s a burden we undertake. Israel does us no favors and is no use to us. Recognizing that fact hardly solves the decades-long Arab-Israeli conflict, but it ought to be the starting point for what Americans should debate–not Israel’s policy toward its Palestinian subjects but America’s policy toward Israel.

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1 comment:

  1. Anonymous15:35

    check this out

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd2yw4DCtbA&feature=related

    know yer a propaghandi fan, and you've probably seen it. awesome demonstration of a three piece band sounding just like the recording. amazing.

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